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A Columbia County man was cleared by health officials Thursday afternoon after causing a scare when employees at the Columbia County tag office thought he may have the Ebola virus, according to Columbia County emergency management director Pam Tucker.

“The gentleman had been in another country and officials at the tag office became very concerned when they saw him coughing,” Tucker said. “They thought he may have contracted the virus while in Africa.”

Traffic on Columbia Road was bottle-necked after a dump truck rolled over Wednesday afternoon.

Motorists were forced to used one lane as emergency personnel removed the truck and debris at the scene near Ivy Falls.

Joshua John James, 36, was driving a dump truck from Pete Bale Trucking of Dearing east on Columbia Road at about 3:15 p.m., when he came over a hill to stopped traffic. Columbia County sheriff’s Deputy Bobby Bradford said James, of Warrenton, couldn’t stop in time, so he veered onto the right shoulder to avoid hitting stopped vehicles.

An Evans Middle School student was struck by a car on Hereford Farm Road Tuesday afternoon.

At about 3:15 p.m., Anthony Jones, 13, darted out onto the eastbound lane of Hereford Farm Road just west of Lake Jean Drive and into a white Nissan Murano driven by Lois Coxwell, 84, of Evans, according to Columbia County sheriff’s Capt. Steve Morris.

It took personnel from several agencies to round up several horses roaming along Interstate 20 in Columbia County Monday afternoon. Columbia County Animals Services received a call about eight horses along the eastbound shoulder of Interstate 20 between the Harlem and Grovetown exits, according to Animal Services Operations Manager Daniel Mayne.

Columbia County authorities are trying to find a registered sex offender who moved without notifying police.

Authorities say Kenneth Ray Straughn Jr., 37, registered his address at 960 Haverhill Drive in Harlem with the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office on July 8. According to family members, Straughn no longer lives at that address and may be residing in Richmond County, according to a sheriff’s office incident report.

The rivalry softball game between host Greenbrier High School and Evans got a little weird Thursday night.It had all the earmarks of a classic coming in. After Evans won the first meeting of the year 4-3 on Aug. 28, a second Evans win would all but lock up first place in Region 2A-AAAAA. Conversely, a Greenbrier win by more than a run would put the Lady Wolfpack squarely in the driver's seat with three region contests left.